PROGRAM
	bricons (version 3.0 with colour icons)

PLEASE NOTE
        This version of the bricons program can display colour icons or
        pixmaps.  However it needs version 3.2 of the xpm libraries written 
        by Arnaud Le Hors.  This can be obtained by anonymous ftp to: 
        export.lcs.mit.edu.  The source code is in /contrib/xpm directroy.

DESCRIPTION
	The bricons program allows the user to start up applications 
	from a configured command panel on a workstation display 
	running X.  The bricons interface can consist of up to sixteen
	buttons which can display some text or an icon. Each button is 
	used to execute a shell command using the Bourne shell.
	Each button can be configured to display a single spring 
	loaded popup menu with up to ten more buttons.

COMPILATION
	Assuming a good X installation at your site, simply:

		xmkmf ; make

	Otherwise use the Makefile provided.

CONFIGURATION
	Once the bricons program has been successfully compiled it can
	be executed straight away it should display some example buttons
	one of which is a sub menu.

	The bricons program looks for a .briconsrc configuration file in
	your home directory otherwise it looks in the current directory
	for the file.

PORTABILITY
	The bricons program has been compiled and tested on the following:

	machine 		SPARC workstation1 	SPARC workstation2 
	operating system	SunOS 4.1.1		SunOS 4.1.2_ER

	machine			DEC3100 		VAX station
	operating system	Ultrix Worksystem V2.1	Ultrix-32 V3.1
				(Rev 14)		(Rev. 9)

	machine			Sun3
	operating system	SunOS 4.1.1	

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
	Many thanks go to Richard Hesketh and Martin Davy for all their
	help and advice.

___________________________________________________________________________
	Bruce Ingram	email	bri@ukc.ac.uk
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